Ink drawings... I like color so much I tend to tint my ink work later on the computer, turning it hybrid. That's why this list is so short--I no longer even recognize a lot of dream art that started out as ink. Also, most cartoonists eventually render their pencil art in ink for presentation, but I make a lot of mistakes, so I've learned to stick with pencil for erasability, and finish it off digitally--it saves labor and looks fresher to me. Still, ink gives such vivid contrasts--as dramatic as dreams. Try it at least.

THE AIRPORT AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY BOOTH: by Julie Doucet; 1997/11/19, a comic of a warning dream
At the airport, a new automatic photo booth shoots your memories! Julie can't resist... and emerges, excited, to find that...

AMERICAN WIDOW: by Alissa Torres; February 2002, a dream of her husband lost on 9/11
High-voltage traces of our lust and love flowed through our mattress nightly... until one night when the power surged and overflowed. Then I felt you...

ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; ink, 11x14", 1982/12/26, a confessional doodle.
Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS...

BAT AND UMBRELLA: by David Small; c. March 1, 1960, a 14-year-old's nightmare exposing parental neglect/abuse
I'm an orphaned bat staggering down an alley in a storm. I spot an old umbrella and mistake its ribs and flaps for... my Mom! I unfold Mom, and find...
CAUTION: LIFE-THREATENING CHILD NEGLECT

BIRD CRASH: by Emily Joy; 2007/3/12, a set of didactic nightmares
Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all...
CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER

BLACK MAGIC: by Wayan; 1986/11/10, a dream of love and rage; Chapter 8 of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone.
A packet of magic soup mix transports me to the secret wizards' lab in our attic. They're trouble enough, but they've called up a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn...

BURN: by Sierra Loucks; 1990?, a five-year-old's nightmare
I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks...
CAUTION: GRUESOME

A CARTOONIST'S DIARY (excerpt): by Dylan Horrocks; 2012/3/5, a dream proposing a literary project
I melted down all the vinyl records ever made in New Zealand to create one huge compendium. I woke thinking "Could I do that for New Zealand comics?"

CATFISH: by Wayan; 1990s, ink sketch of daydream.
Not a dream image, as far as I can recall. Just looked like it should be...

CATGIRL HOODED IN SNOW: by Wayan; 1982, ink sketch of daydream, 11 x 14".
I was never sure where her winter cloak ended and her winter coat began...

CAT WITH A KNIFE: by Wayan, 2000/6/24, an almost-nightmare of a Jungian Shadow transformed by patience
At school, a guy threatens me with a knife. But I sit on him and wait patiently. Slowly, he turns into a giant black cat! I set him free in a garden, where he's calm and alert...

CENTAUR WITH STAFF OF POWER: by Wayan; 11x14", ink 1982/6/3, tinted 2001; sketch of a daydream
An image influenced by a recent dream, "Centaur Quartet...

CRISSI THE DRIDER: by Brian Harp; 2003/1/16, a recurring dream character
Crissi is a strange creature that has prowled my subconscious for a few years...
CAUTION: SPIDER SEX, BONDAGE

DANCE OF THE ENIGMAS: by Brian Harp; 2000, a dream of a sphinx-riddle
She asked me "What, plus a teaspoon of knowledge and a teaspoon of wisdom, makes three teaspoons of nothing?"

THE DOUBLE: by Julie Doucet; Nov. 1992, a lucid alter-ego sex dream.
Looking in a mirror, Julie goes lucid. She changes herself into a man and pulls her mirror-image through the glass...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY

EXIT THROUGH THE DUNGEON: by Wayan, 1982/5/23, an experiment in automatic drawing that contained unexpected advice
I turned off my conscious judgment and drew. Two paths appeared--one leading to psychodrama, then prison; the other, into the underworld of dreamwork...
CAUTION: NUDE DREAM-SELVES

EYELASH GUY: by HareTrinity; 2003?4?5?, a fortunately nonrecurring dream
A coach-driving vampire seemed kind of cute until he raped me. If that's even his real face...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE

FALSE ALARM: by Wayan; 1996/5/23, a nightmare I lived as a kid.
In school, I'm seen as a freak--lied to, set up for little pranks. Not just by my classmates--my teachers...

THE FEARFUL INSECT by Nancy Price; 1948, an episodic circular nightmare unified by a leitmotif
A bug with a horse-skull face reappears in scene after scene of this dream of sabotage and betrayal. I only know I feared it...

FLIGHT, MARGARET, MOUSE, DOG: by Dave McKean based on Paul Nash's dreams (1895-9 plus Feb. 1913) As a child, landscape artist Paul Nash dreamed of flying over the countryside of southern England. But he was threatened by a Black Dog...

FLOATING HORSES: by Wayan, 1972/8/10, a flying/transformation dream advising patience
That day, I did bad art. That night, my friend & I get turned into levitating horses--though some of our fellow fliers are kinda creepy...

FREEDOM THROUGH BOXES: by Wayan; an experiment in art & pain, Jan 2005
I've always loved curves, color, dreams, sex, texture... and planning, too.
So one day I drew 100 black boxes in ink--no color, no curves, no erasure! And then I began to seek...

GIRL-HEAP, OR CHOICE?: by Wayan; 1998/10/29, a dream on initiative.
I'm on a women's sports team, and I should be in paradise. But I want more; not love exactly, but...

GREEN DAY DREAM: by Cristy C. Road; early 1995. A recurring dream.
Green Day singer Billie Joe hocked a lugie on me in concert. I felt blessed...
CAUTION: EWWW

THE HEAD FACTORY: by Wayan; 2014/8/24, a dream-poem on changing your mind
I toured a factory where they make the spare heads you put on and take off to change your mind. Nothing creepy about it, nothing at all...

HORSE IN A TAILWIND: by Wayan; 1982; study of a dream character
It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me...

HOWL: by Wayan; June 1983, a picture-poem on a daydream of deep time
Surely the dinosaurs were as vocal as their cousins, the birds. But bass to birds' soprano. So when dinos sang to the moon...

I DREAM OF... ME: by Linda Medley; 1990 or 1991, a dream-comic inspiring (and shaping) her life-work, Castle Waiting
I wake in a hobbit-hole. My love looks worried. What's wrong wiith me? A badger takes me to see wizard Sean Connery, who gives me feathers to eat, and I become...

IN A REHEARSAL ROOM: by Wayan; 1982/10/20, a sexy dreamlet on shyness.
I dreamed my fears faded like ghosts, as we made love in the rehearsal room. But invisible is not gone...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX

INDIANS OCCUPY DANCE CLUB: by Wayan; 2012/8/31; a dream of biased art I try to correct
An ink sketch in a magazine shows a new Ghost Dance invading city clubs. But the (biased?) artist uglifies the Indians, horses and giraffes dancing...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY; JAUNDICED ART/REPORTING

JASON: by MariNaomi; 1989, a romantic-warning nightmare
The Mummy chases me, then unwraps his bandages to show the mutilated face of my boyfriend. "I'm getting out of jail!" he says. Then the phone wakes me. It's my boyfriend. He says "I'm getting out of..."
CAUTION: CODEPENDENCE, MUTILATION, GUILT AND GRIEF

JESSE'S DEATH: drawn by Joey Epstein from her father-in-law's dream; 1983/7/31, an apparent psychic dream
At the exact minute Joey's infant daughter Jesse died, her father-in-law woke up 500 miles away and announced, "The baby..."

JILL THE PEST: by Wayan; 240K, 2001/2/22, a nondream visionary comic.
I had a headache and couldn't sleep. I started drawing, and asked for a cure. And a cartoon angel said...
CAUTION: TANTRUMS, MASTURBATION, JUNKFOOD, ANGELIC SCOLDING

LION RIDER: by Jo Equinity; c. 2000?, an anticipatory consoling dream
I dreamed I was riding a lion. A few days later, when my husband suddenly left me, I recalled the dream and...

LITTLE NEMO'S BED: by Winsor McCay; c. 1906, a famous if probably fictional dream icon
Little Nemo's bed gets restless and takes him for a wild ride through town and up onto roofs...

LOUSE: by Wayan; ink, 1982/5/21: an embarrassing true story.
Getting rid of lice was easy. Harder was quelling the gossip and rumors from my co-workers and boss...
CAUTION: A LOUSE OF A BOSS

MYRNA, LOOK AHEAD: by Myrna, drawn by her daughter Joey Epstein; before 1988, a dream of a revenant ghost’s advice
After Myrna’s husband gave up diabetes treatments to die at home, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered...

NIGHTMARE STUDIO: by Gary Panter, 2003, a 5-page muted-color comic of his lonely, surreal, Chirico-esque dream world
Rather than a dream narrative, this is a tour through Gary's common dreamscapes--forgotten places, empty streets. Or ones you wish were empty...

NO MAN IS ISLAND: by Wayan; 125K, 1990, poem refuting John Donne's, illustrated with dreamselves.
No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...

ON THE SEASHORE: by Gabrielle Bell; between 1998-2002; a lucid dream-comic
I'm on a beach in Mexico with a baby--my only souvenir of an affair I can't recall. I'm a mom? My whole life will change! Wait. Is this real, or...

OWLYCAT: by Wayan; 1983/3/16, daydream of night being.
At the time I didn't even notice the pun...

PEGASUS LANDS: by Roswila; early 1990s? A collaborative haiga [picture-poem] of a dream
Haiku by Roswila of a dream of meeting a winged horse, illustrated by her late friend Janet...

THE PLANTER OF SEEDS: by Victoria Goro-Rapoport, 2011, print based on recurring dreams
I often dream I'm lost in a strange city, wandering the unfamiliar streets in search of something unknown, and possibly unknowable...

PRISONS AND STRIPES: by Emily Joy; 2007/10/4, a lucid dream.
In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits...

QUICKSILVER DREAM WYRM: by Orion Sandstorrm; before 2003/7/27; portrait of a recurrent dream character
A bizarre dragon that runs a toyshop and plans revolution. He has skin and eyes like hematite, black and metallic. His presence instills in you a kind of unsettled awe...

THE RECURRING DREAM (CAT-BABY): by Julie Doucet; 1994/8/23-9/23-12/23, 1995/4/16: variations on a theme
Julie keeps dreaming that she gives birth to a cat, or a part-cat baby...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BIRTH, UNBIRTH, REBIRTH...

RECURRING SCHOOL NIGHTMARE: by Julie Doucet; July 1995, a dream of... oh, read the title!
Trapped in elementary school, Julie is forced to study the alphabet until she declares "I'm a professional cartoonist, goddammit!"...

REVERSE MY ARMOR: by Wayan; dreamed 2008/4/14, a dream with bizarre long-term advice. Which I took.
Where I usually cover up, I strip bare, & where I'm bare, I cover up. Feel like that Playboy cartoon with the stockings & gloves--the Femlin!
Behaviorally, too, I reverse all my habits, judgments and self-image(s). Perverse, self-destructive! But my life still works...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY. ALSO, A LOSER SUCCEEDS.

SHHHH!: by Wayan; 1981, daydream in ink.
A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they...
CAUTION: NUDITY

SIXTY-NINE MIDAIR: by Wayan; 1988? Ink, 14"x17"; daydream or hypnogogic image
Just a lazy, sexy image that came to me, of floating in air like a pinwheel, licking and being licked...
CAUTION: SEX

SLEEPERS ALL: by Wayan; 2008/8/22, a dream poem, Dreamverse #12
I dream I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters. Wait a minute...

SLEEPING BEAUTY: by Wayan, 1999/8/22, a warning dream on quitting too soon.
A girl lies dreaming in the street; no one can wake her. At last I yell "Face it, she's dead!" But is she? I never try a kiss...

SO TIRED OF MY BONES: by Wayan; 1999/9/13. Ink painted on with cardboard wedges; acrylic wash.
In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...

SPHINX IN REPOSE (BLACK SPHINX): by Wayan; 1983 / 2000; portrait of a dream-friend.
A sphinx with equine traits; probably a precursor of the Krelkin, a sphinxlike alien who befriended me later...

SUDDEN DEATH: by Cory; 2008/3/1 to 2008/3/14, a series of dreams on a friend’s suicide.
I’ve had premonitory dreams of friends’ deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action...

TAROT: HAW!: by Wayan; 30K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1978.
Humor's one of the big emotions--laughter's as loud and uncontrollable as crying or orgasm...

TAWNY OWL by Nancy Price; April 1948, a dream of muses
On the road with a poet and a philosopher, I insist we rescue an owl. But we get lost, and the poet turns into...

TED'S DEATH: drawn by Joey Epstein from her aunt's mid-1980s dream; an apparent psychic dream
Ted died of CO2 poisoning in Hong Kong. His mom dreamed he came to tell her it was painless. To prove he was real, he told her...

THERE I WAS: by Michelle Brand, 1972, stream-of-consciousness lucid dream comic
Kaleidoscopic constellations? No thanks! A nudist town in Italy? Ugh. But vaudeville in a monk's robe and roller skates...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY

THE VEGETABLES OF SHADOW: by Wayan; 1999/10/4. Nondream surrealist art technique.
Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between...
CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH

A VIAL CRIME: by Wayan; 1984/5/21, a bizarre cartoon dream protesting that I wasn't myself today
I'm a flying fox in Edwardian England. I witness a poisoning. When I try to climb a tower to call for help, badly drawn knockoffs of Peanuts characters attack me. Copyright violation! The real Peanuts gang shows up to save the day; Snoopy drives us to the emergency room. Thus I learn the importance of being... authentic.
CAUTION: PUNS

WAYAN’S STUDIO: by Wayan; art Sept.1999, text 2007; sketches of my workspace
These sketches bare my work process: I multitask without planning, in a flow state. I really do “follow my bliss”!

WHAT STARTED THE PILLOWFIGHT: by Wayan; 1983/2/16, a strangely innocent dream.
My sister and I get into an argument about different kinds of incest, in embarrassing circumstances...
CAUTION: POST-ORGY HYPOCRISY

WHILE THE MEN WERE HUNTING by Wayan, 1981/11/3; a crayon-ink-Xerox art-prayer.
In cave times, while the men were out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...